FS: 1st Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Fri., April 14, 2000.

[Acorn Books]

1. THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST. 160 pgs with index. Maps & prints. Cloth in
pictorial light blue & brown dust jacket. 16mo. NY: Simon & Schuster,
(1955). 1st Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. "Not only an overview of points of
geographic interest, but essential information about the people &
characteristic land forms, plants, & animals of the Southwest."
$15.00 [114421]

2. Austin, Hugh. IT COULDN'T BE MURDER. Black cloth, without dust
jacket. 12mo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. Small watermark
on first free endpaper; otherwise, good+ condition. $20.00 [114480]

3. Benesch, Otto. THE ART OF THE RENAISSANCE IN NORTHERN EUROPE: Its
Relation to the Contemporary Spiritual & Intellectual Movements. 195
pgs with index. Reproductions. Cloth in lightly chipped pictorial red
dust jacket. Imperial octavo. London: Phaidon, (1965). Revised
Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $24.50 [114454]

4. Cartmell, Van H. & Bennett Cerf (Editors). FAMOUS PLAYS OF CRIME &
DETECTION. 910 pgs. Red cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo.
Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1946. 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good
condition. "From Sherlock Holmes to Angel Street." $24.50 [114457]

5. [Charles] Dimbleby, Jonathan. THE PRINCE OF WALES: A Biography. 620
pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in price-clipped pictorial cream dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Morrow, (1994). 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $20.00
[114463]

6. Christie, Archibald H. PATTERN DESIGN: An Introduction to the Study
of Formal Ornament. 313 pgs with index. Photos & drawings. Yellow
paper wrappers. Octavo. NY: Dover, (1969). Reprint edition. Spine
sunned; otherwise, very good condition. $15.00 [114437]

7. Cirlot, J. E. A DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS. 400 pgs with index. Photos &
drawings. Cloth in lightly chipped pictorial blue & red dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Philosophical Library, (1962). Very good condition with
good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $37.50 [114458]

8. Deeds, Daphne Anderson. OF TIME & THE CITY: American Modernism from
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. 80 pgs with bibliography & index.
Color reproductions throughout. Orange, white & blue pictorial paper
wrappers. Quarto. NY: American Federation of Arts, (1990). Fine
condition. $20.00 [114478]

9. Dickson, Carter. THE SKELETON IN THE CLOCK. Cloth in chipped
price-clipped pictorial grey dust jacket. 12mo. NY: Morrow, 1948. 1st
Edition. Very good condition with good jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. $22.50 [114440]

10. Dickson, Samuel. TALES OF SAN FRANCISCO [San Francisco Is Your
Home, San Francisco Kaleidoscope, The Streets of San Francisco]. 711
pgs. Prints & map endpapers. Brown cloth with tattered pictorial black
dust jacket laid-in. Octavo. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
(1960). 2nd printing. Very good condition. Three volumes in one.
$30.00 [114456]

11. Egerton-Thomas, Christopher. ROYAL SINGLES: Profiles of the
World's Most Eligible Aristocrats. 193 pgs. Photos. Pictorial purple &
tan paper wrappers. Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster, (1985). 1st Edition.
Very good condition. $15.00 [114462]

12. (Exhibition Catalog). THE SIXTH WEDGWOOD INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR. 47
pgs. Color & black & white photos. Pictorial yellow plastic spiral
wrappers. Octavo. San Francisco: M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, 1961.
Edition limited to 700 copies. Front cover lightly sunned; otherwise,
very good condition. $27.50 [114431]

13. Firmin, Stanley. SCOTLAND YARD: The Inside Story. 186 pgs. Photos.
Blue cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. London: Hutchinson, no date
(c. 1940s?). Very good condition. $22.50 [114434]

14. Fregnac, Claude. JEWELRY: From the Renaissance to Art Nouveau. 97
pgs. Color & black & white photos throughout. Cloth in grey dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Octopus, (1973). Very good condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $16.50 [114467]

15. Gregorietti, Guido. JEWELRY: History & Technique from the
Egyptians to the Present. 166 pgs with bibliography. Color photos
throughout. Cloth in silver pictorial dust jacket. Imperial octavo.
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell, (1979). Very good+ condition with very good
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $22.50 [114466]

16. [Hanover] Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher. BLOOD ROYAL: The
Illustrious House of Hanover. 250 pgs with index. Prints. Cloth in
pictorial tan & white dust jacket. Octavo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1980. 1st U.S. Edition. Very good condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $20.00 [114460]

17. Hardwick, Michael & Mollie. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COMPANION. 232
pgs. Prints. Cloth in price-clipped pictorial gold & white dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Murray, (1962). 1st Edition. Very good
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $42.50
[114453]

18. Harrower, Dorothy. DECOUPAGE: A Limitless World in Decoration. 191
pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black & white photos &
reproductions throughout. Cloth in chipped blue dust jacket with spine
heavily sunned to white. Quarto. NY: Bonanza, (1958). 3rd printing.
Very good condition with good jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
$21.50 [114476]

19. Holland, Rupert S. (Editor). KING ARTHUR & THE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Illustrated by Lancelot Speed. Gilt-titled blue cloth
with pictorial cover color label, without dust jacket . 12mo.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, (1919). Previous owner's inked inscription
on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good condition. $24.00
[114433]

20. James, Henry. LETTERS. Edited by Leon Edel. 4 volume set. Cloth
with pictorial color dust jackets. Octavo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Spines sunned (volumes I, II, &
IV); otherwise, very good condition with like jackets in protective
mylar wrappers. $140.00 [114426]

21. [Kennedys] Bly, Nellie. THE KENNEDY MEN: Three Generations of Sex,
Scandal & Secrets. 357 pgs with bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in
pictorial blue dust jacket. Octavo. (NY): Kensington, (1996). Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $15.00
[114479]

22. Kerouac, Jack. BIG SUR. Pictorial black & beige paper wrappers.
16mo. NY: Bantam S2642, (1963). 1st Edition Thus. Very good condition.
$17.50 [114422]

23. Levey, Michael. PAINTING IN XVIII CENTURY VENICE. 225 pgs with
index. Tipped-in color plates; black & white reproductions. Cloth in
lightly chipped, spine-sunned pictorial red dust jacket. Imperial
octavo. London: Phaidon, (1959). 1st Edition. Very good condition with
good+ jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $34.50 [114452]

24. MacGrath, Harold. THE RAJAH MURDER. Cloth in lightly chipped
Grosset & Dunlap pictorial black dust jacket. 12mo. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Very good condition with good+ jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $15.00 [114449]

25. Morley, Christopher. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY. 304 pgs. Illustrated
by Walter Jack Duncan. Boards with brown back, without dust jacket.
12mo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1923. 1st Edition. Very good
condition. $16.50 [114451]

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